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Florida condo collapse: Death toll climbs to 64 amid recovery effort By Kelly Hayes SURFSIDE, Fla. - The death toll climbed to 64 people in a collapsed condo building in Florida Thursday as the painstaking search for survivors switched to a recovery effort, officials said. 10 additional victims were discovered in the rubble, officials said Thursday, bringing the death toll to 64 in the June 24 collapse of the Champlain Towers South building. Another 76 people were unaccounted for, although dete...

Recovery workers vow not to let up in Florida condo collapse; death toll rises to 64 Toggle share menu Advertisement Advertisement World Recovery workers vow not to let up in Florida condo collapse; death toll rises to 64 Rescue workers are now focused on finding remains instead of survivors in the rubble of a Florida condominium collapse. (Photo: AP) 09 Jul 2021 07:40AM (Updated: 09 Jul 2021 07:44AM) Share this content Bookmark SURFSIDE,...

Recovery workers vow not to let up in Florida condo collapse Poll 5 – Excellent A police officer walks past the collapsed and demolished Champlain Towers South condominium building, Tuesday, July 6, 2021, in Surfside, Fla. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky) SURFSIDE, Fla. (AP) – Rescue workers now focused on finding remains instead of survivors in the rubble of a Florida condominium collapse vowed Thursday to keep up their search for victims until they cleared all the debris at the site. A fire offi...

The confirmed death toll rose to 64 Thursday, with another 76 people unaccounted for. By TERRY SPENCERAssociated Press Read Article Excavators dig through the rubble of the Champlain Towers South on Thursday. Rescue workers focused on finding remains instead of survivors in the rubble. Pedro Portal/Miami Herald via AP SURFSIDE, Fla. — Rescue workers now focused on finding remains instead of survivors in the rubble of a Florida condominium collapse vowed Thursday to keep up their search f...

A college student, the daughter of a Miami firefighter, a family of four: What we know about the collapse victims By: CNN By Theresa Waldrop, Alisha Ebrahimji, Ray Sanchez, Claire Colbert and Amir Vera, CNN     (CNN) -- The dead and unaccounted for residents of the Champlain Towers South in Surfside, Florida, reflect the areas rich cultural diversity. The international tragedy has touched members of a tight-knit Jewish community and families from...

What we know about the dead and unaccounted for in the Surfside condo collapse CNN 5 hrs ago © Courtesy Joseph Malouf Andreas Giannitsopoulos The dead and unaccounted for residents of the Champlain Towers South in Surfside, Florida, reflect the areas rich cultural diversity. The international tragedy has touched members of a tight-knit Jewish community and families from as far away as Argentina, Paraguay and Colombia. Scores of people remain unaccounted for after the collapse of part of th...

Inside the Tumultuous Years Before the Florida Condo Collapse Patricia Mazzei, Kimiko de Freytas-Tamura, Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, Alexandra E. Petri and Stephanie Saul © Scott McIntyre for The New York Times Chris Jeffers placed flowers on a barricade fence that has become a makeshift memorial near the site of the Champlain Towers South collapse site in Surfside, Fla. SURFSIDE, Fla. — Elena Blasser kept her two-bedroom, two-bath condo in the Champlain Towers South as a bea...

A family of four, a 60-year love story, a young man with muscular dystrophy: What we know about the collapse victims Joe Raedle/Getty Images Joe Raedle/Getty Images Maria Fernanda Martinez and Mariana Cordeiro look on as search and rescue operations continue at the site of the partially collapsed 12-story condo building on Friday in Surfsid By Theresa Waldrop, Alisha Ebrahimji, Ray Sanchez, Claire Colbert and Amir Vera, CNN The dead and unaccounted for residents of the Champlain Towers South in...

“He called me every 20 minutes and he did between every 20, 30 minutes," Matthews said. "He would call me, and he would call me, Any update? I’m like, no, Mike, I’m sorry, I don’t know, and he would hang up and kept calling and kept calling." Officer Matthews works at the communications desk at the Surfside Police Department. Thursday night when the Champlain Towers came down, nonstop calls came in. “People from all over the world all over the country calling asking what happened,”...

"Tomorrow will be one week. So until one week, I still hope." Tons of crushed concrete and bad weather The collapse happened while many residents were asleep, and Vach said crews have been looking for bedrooms buried under 13-16 feet of concrete. "Most of the collapse is very, very tight. The collapse was major," Vach said. Rescue crews will soon face another challenge: inclement weather. Rain and thunderstorms arrived Wednesday and more are expected Thursday. There is a potential for strong wi...